The World Health Organization has advised Covid-vulnerable people to postpone plans to travel abroad; Greece imposes €100 monthly fines on unvaccinated over-60s
- Omicron Covid variant ‘present in Europe at least 10 days ago’
- Brazil and Japan join growing list of countries to report Omricon cases
- Moderna boss predicts current jabs may be less effective against Omicron
- Germany’s chancellor-to-be Olaf Scholz ‘backs mandatory Covid jabs’
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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the coronavirus outbreak.
I’m Samantha Lock and I’ll be giving you a rundown of the latest updates as they happen.